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"'I've had nothing yet, Alice replied in an offended tone: 'So I can't take more.' 'You mean you can't take less', said the Hatter: 'It's very easy to take more than nothing.'" (page 73)
“From the invitation for the duchess to play croquet.” (page 59)
"muchness" (page 75)
"Your hair wants cutting" (page 68)
Did you say ‘pig’ or ‘fig’ said the Cat.” (page 66)
“’Once upon a time there will three little sisters’, the Dormouse began in a great hurry, ‘and their names were Elsie,Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived in a bottom of a well.’”(page 73)
”Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle:”(page 72)
“You see the earth takes twenty four hours to turn around on its axis, talking of axes chop off her head.” (page 62)
"'I believe I can guess that...then say what you mean' the March Hare went on." (page 69)
”’Well, then,’ the Cat went on, ‘you see a dog growls when its angry, and wags its tail when its pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m Angry. Therefore I’m Mad’”. (page 66)
"'Curious and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for a moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."(page 26)
"'If you knew time as well I did'..." (page 71)
-“That begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness…(page 75)
" 'Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day!' "(page 28)
”Wow wow wow” (page 62)
"'It was a treacle well'" (page 74)
"If you knew Time as well as I do," said the Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him." (page 71)
“Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see.’’(page 69)
"'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't growing larger and smaller...;"(page 42)
"'Off with his head!'" (page 72)
"'It was the best butter,'" the March Hare meekly replied. (page 70)
"Do cats eat bats? Do bats eat cats?"(page 21)
"Then she set to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and then- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, amoung the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.(page 76)
"'But they were in the well', Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark. 'Of course theywere',said the Dormouse, 'well in'" (page 74)
" You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing." (page 73)
“’You might as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in his sleep, ‘that I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe”. (page 69)

'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'(page71)


"Down, down, down."(page 21)
'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; 'so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?'(page74)

'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I get" is the same things as "I get what I like"!'(page 69)





'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.' 'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock.(page 71)

"Do you mean what you think you can find the answer out to it?" said the Match Hare.(page 69)








Word Play in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland!